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I am very proud of my working girls , my yellow Daffy Dog (AKA CH Tapua Celtic Charm) and Scrappy (AKA TApua Heeni Te Anna) both work for Australian Truffle Hunters who are currently harvesting the truffles from a big farm in WA. Between them they have brought in over 200kg of truffles. Part of a 5 dog team that have found 1.4 kg of Truffle so far this season.

Daffy Dog - you might be able to see the pink ribbon in the line of tree marking where she has found the truffles

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Scrappy pointing to a truffle she has found.

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Clever girls :) Why is Daffy wearing boots/socks on her front feet?

Truffles are a tad delicate the dogs are trained to indicate by scratching the area the truffle and then wait for the reward. Sometimes truffle is near the surface and the dog scratching can damage the truffle - so the boots prevent the nails digging in.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Do the dogs return to you when out of season?

Yes Daffy does because I will be breeding from when she comes back she is only on lease, Scrappy is Adrian's dog he owns her outright but if he is away for a while Scrappy boards here. We will be starting to scent train my other dogs this weekend - it should be fun

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